Job Description

Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge technology and self-motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as a Technical Team Lead.

As a key member of a Software Engineering team, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be working with our National Security Customers to build systems that support their core mission capabilities. You\xe2\x80\x99ll work as part of empowered, autonomous DevOps teams with regular contact with end-users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain applications and services. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and get to work in a range of different teams across our customer organisations. You will work in a small team given as much ownership and responsibility as you have the appetite for but part of a much bigger Engineering community to give you the support you need to grow in your career.

We fully embrace DevOps ways of working in our teams, and build a very broad range of capabilities for our customers. We therefore value Engineers who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new technologies and approaches. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be playing a role in identifying the right technologies to use for the job and be supported with training as needed through access to services such as Pluralsight.

Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

About you

You will have experience in many of the following:

• Designing innovative solutions that fit within business and technical constraints
• Taking responsibility for the technical output of your team
• Collaborating with other tech leads and architects to join-up solutions
• Communicating clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written form
• Championing quality assurance and best practices and mentoring individuals in their application
• Practical software development in one or more common languages, such as Java, C# or JavaScript
• Following an agile development methodology, such as SCRUM or SAFe
• Driving innovation within a team of engineers to find new solutions to difficult problems

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we\xe2\x80\x99ll help you with them:

• Cloud technology training and certification, such as AWS or Azure
• A scaled agile framework certification, such as SAFe or Scrum@Scale
• Experience in full-stack technical design
• Managing stakeholders, including users and management
• Familiarity with security concepts, including secure design and implementation
• Mentoring junior engineers and nurturing their passion for engineering

Security Clearance is required for this vacancy. If you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the process.

How we will support you

• Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working, and many of our roles include hybrid working enabling a mix of working from home and in the office
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
• Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll be part of our company bonus scheme
• You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.

About our team

Our people are what differentiates us, they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting edge, high quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll be part of a big company, but we try to create a culture that feels like a small one. The work will stretch you and be challenging, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance. Most of all, we know teams who work well together also perform well. We\xe2\x80\x99ll do everything we can to ensure you have fun at work, and in social activities outside of it whether that\xe2\x80\x99s virtually or in person, as conditions allow.

You will be joining our National Security business which is the largest area within our UK business. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients in delivery of their core mission. At the end of 2020 we had over 700 employees working across our security and law enforcement customers. This year, we are looking to build on our success and grow even further by recruiting over 100 new members to our team.

We have a rich history of working within National Security. In fact, we have over 40 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience of delivering advice and solutions to our customers in this sector, supporting them in carrying out their vital missions.

More about BAE Systems

You will work for a division of BAE Systems who helps nations, governments and businesses around the world defend themselves against cyber crime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations. We\xe2\x80\x99re a consultancy and products business and employ smart, motivated individuals who work together across a range of projects and products. You\xe2\x80\x99ll get to work on a variety of different systems for different customers throughout your career with us. We\xe2\x80\x99re passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you\xe2\x80\x99ll work with will reflect this. We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK and EMEA

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Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we\xe2\x80\x99re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance wellbeing.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds \xe2\x80\x93 the best and brightest minds \xe2\x80\x93 can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

About BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We use our intelligence-led insights to help defend Governments, Nations and Societies from cyber-attacks and financial crime. Our customers depend on our evolving capabilities to help them safely grow their organisations. Our unprecedented access to threat intelligence, world-leading analysts and market-leading technology means we can help them to adapt, evolve and stay ahead of the criminals.

Division overview: Government

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Our Government business unit houses four of our critical client groups: UK National Security, Global National Security, defence and central government. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.

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